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Is MacKeeper bad for your Mac?

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Five years ago, MacKeeper was widely regarded as a Probably Unwanted Program. How has it changed now that it has been notarized by Apple? Is it safe?

June 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

Checking for broken Aliases using Alifix

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It’s worth refreshing all your Finder Aliases before copying or cloning a volume to update their link info. Here’s a free tool to do that and more: Alifix.

January 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Weed control in the walled garden

Another worthless piece of “security theatre” about bundle signatures. I wouldn’t bother reading it, or downloading the new version of Signet.

December 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Cleaning cleaners – getting rid of unwanted utilities

How can I rid my Mac of CleanMyMac and Reduce The Lag, which my logs say are still hanging around?

October 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Tidying Documents

How can I clean up my Documents folder?

August 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Asleep on the job

I wonder whether the most important requirement in power management is to obtain an Energy Saver rating, rather than function in the way that we expect.

July 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Have you ever been had?

Imagine my horror when I found that I had installed an unwanted cleaning utility on my iMac.

July 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Keeper not for keeps

Q Years ago I used MacKeeper, but have not had it installed for a long time. Now running […]

April 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Keeping it clean

I know that it is not yet Spring, but the closure of MacUser has driven me to tidy […]

January 19, 2015 Macs
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